A 15-year-old girl fell out of a canoe and survived about 45 minutes by clinging to a tree limb in the bone-chilling Ipswich River late yesterday afternoon.

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The overflowing Ipswich River is having a ripple effect throughout the region, as commuters who ordinarily take Route 114 from the North Shore to the Merrimack Valley are finding their way blocked.

Water flowing into the Ipswich River the past three days didn't raise the river level to record heights, but it is awfully high for this time of year.

Something much larger than an eagle landed at the home of the St. John's Prep Eagles yesterday afternoon when Cronin Stadium became a helicopter landing pad for one of its students.

For residents of Hamilton and Wenham, where Proposition 2 1/2 overrides are as much a sign of spring as the arrival of Baltimore orioles and yellow warblers, the findings of a committee charged with tracking spending by the regional school district has provided kindling for an already hot debate over education costs.

Apparently, it is now permissible for public employees to host Internet message boards on which racially oriented death threats are made against management.

The Masconomet Regional School Committee announced yesterday that a new superintendent will lead the school district.

Fleurette Simms said she returned to her Middleton Road home in the middle of Harold Parker State Forest yesterday morning to find two men ransacking the place.

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After a visit last week to a fire and police dispatch center near Scranton, Pa., Mayor Thatcher Kezer is more convinced than ever that signing onto a planned Essex County regional dispatch center is a "no-brainer" for the town.

The Masconomet Regional School Committee voted to offer Tyngsboro Superintendent Darrell Lockwood the superintendent's position at the Boxford-based regional school district yesterday in a 10-1 vote.

Gloucester's Amanda Nash is always looking for ways locals and visitors can have a good time at her Inn Magnolia.

Fredi Gonzalez, 48, of 126 Hamilton Ave. in Lynn was arrested for operating a motor vehicle without a license.

City Council is in no rush to commit Gloucester to membership in a proposed North Shore regional emergency call center.